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Flow5 released to open source

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GranPC

5 hours ago

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Context from the homepage (https://flow5.tech):

An analysis tool for planes and sails operating at low Reynolds numbers

flow5 is a potential flow solver with built-in pre- and post processing functionalities. Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.

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LASR

2 hours ago

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With so many things being called Flow these days, this one is probably the most fitting.

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serf

1 hour ago

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>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.

music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.

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notpushkin

2 hours ago

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Source code: https://github.com/techwinder/flow5

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samuell

46 minutes ago

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Curious that this hit the front page.

What kind of projects is this software used for?